The United States accelerates its plans against the narco in Mexico, in a series of maneuvers that go hand in hand with Trump’s intention to designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
This week the Plenary of the Mexican Senate approved … Unanimously an opinion with which a team of 10 marines of the special forces of the United States are authorized to enter the country to support training tasks to elements of the Secretariat of the Navy. While exercises have already been carried out in the past, it is the first time that members of this elite force arrive in Mexico.
Senator Lilly Téllez, belonging to National Action (PAN), opponent to the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum, said: «They come military to train other military: it is not novelty, there have been agreements. Yes you can cooperate between both forces. There is no invasion to Mexico because you come forces from another country. There is no violation of sovereignty. The homeland was not sold, it did not submit because there is this cooperation. Why not accept cooperation with the United States to proceed against posters in Mexico?
For their part, the official senators supported the arrival of Marines but, in line with Sheinbaum, they stressed that it can only be cooperating respecting Mexico’s sovereignty.
In parallel, the incursions of US military aircraft are multiplied on the border. As revealed by the CNN chain, the Trump administration drastically intensified in recent days, spying flights at the border with Mexico and the Sea of Cortes focused on the operations of the narco cartels in Mexican territory moving aircraft usually focused on monitoring Russia and China.
Espionage flights
Citing three anonymous American officials aware of the issue, the CNN chain pointed out in a report that military espionage flights in the border area with Mexico went from only one a month to at least 18 flights in a period of 10 days, between purposes January and early February.
According to the report, the aircraft involved in strengthening the spying to the cartels include various Boeing P-8 Poseidon of the Navy, a Boeing RC-135 Rivet Joint from the Air Force and for the first time in history, according to the officials, a Lockheed U-2 of the Air Force known as “Dragon Lady.”
Air control is complemented with the presence of warships in the Pacific Ocean, in the limit of international waters, where the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) belonging to the United States Navy, with capacity for capacity for the capacity to Host more than 60 aircraft and a crew of almost six thousand men, about 3,000 services and supply and the rest of the air group. The battleship is located at 105 nautical miles (194 kilometers) from the coastal city.
On the other hand, Trump proposed as the head of the drug control administration (DEA) to the exagent Terrance “Terry” Cole, who has said that the Government of Mexico works with the cartels and has described the country as “failed state.”
Current Secretary of Protection and Security of Virginia, Cole worked 22 years in the DEA where he was interim regional director for Mexico, Canada and Central America.
“The Mexican government, at the highest level, is complicit and works side by side with cartels at manufacturing, transport and distribution levels,” the Breitbart site told 2020.
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